A firefighter paramedic was fatally stabbed in an ambulance. A patient is being charged.
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A paramedic has died after being stabbed by a patient in the back of an ambulance, according to officials.
Early Sunday morning, firefighter Graham Hoffman, 29, was in the back of an ambulance transporting a patient to the hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, when he was stabbed in the chest, piercing his heart, according to a press release published on the city's website.
Hoffman was taken to the intensive care unit at North Kansas City Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries.
"I am heartbroken by the loss of Firefighter Paramedic Graham Hoffman," the city's mayor, Quinton Lucas, said in a statement. "After praying for his recovery this morning with his family and colleagues, I join all Kansas Citians in mourning the loss of a heroic public servant.”
Hoffman had been a firefighter since 2022, according to the press release.
What happened?
At 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Kansas City Police Department were dispatched to a welfare call at 152 Highway and North Oak Trafficway in Kansas City, a representative from the Kansas City Missouri Police Department told Paste BN. The reports were regarding a woman walking on the highway.
The woman was later identified as Shanetta Bossell, 38, reported local news stations KCTV 5 and KSHB. Officers responding to the call requested EMS.
While EMS was preparing to transport Bossell, she is suspected of stabbing Hoffman in the heart with a knife.
Bossell was apprehended after the incident and later charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Woman arrested less than a week prior for reportedly biting officer
On April 23, four days before Hoffman was stabbed, Bossell was arrested after she allegedly bit an officer during a different arrest, according to KCTV5.
She was charged with assault and resisting arrest, but posted a $10,000 bond and was released before Saturday.
Paste BN has reached out to the Clay County prosecutor's office for more information.
This story has been updated to add new information.
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